Canteens

[Todd Gylsen]

Close-up views...

[Todd Gylsen]

CLose-up of the marking on the tang.

[MULON]

Medical canteen without long strap, if the cap is also marked WAL43 there is nothing wrong IMO

[Todd Gylsen]

Thanks Mulon! I appreciate the help. The cup is not marked.

[MULON]

Unmarked? Really? interesting, not easy to find unmarked alu cap.....

[PIotrS]

Small collection of my canteens



Best Regards, Piotr.

[HERMSDORF]

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[Varsity]

Very nice Piotr
Great Canteens.

I will make a pic of all my examples when I have time.

This is one I have found last Saturday. Really great enemal example in really mint condition. I am very happy with it!

Regards Jim

[MULON]

Super mint Jim, congrats

PIotrS.....nice example are there, for two of them I'm ready to sell my left hand

[edison10728]

[M98CZ]

In my collection I found 3 types Al canteens caps (all pre-war)

middle one is higher




and Al caps tower

[MULON]

Interesting comparison

[Glenn Barbaritz]

wow, what a thread, 36 pages about canteens! Todd, as for your "WAL" canteen. Mulon is correct. nothing wrong with it. the cup you have on it is the cup that was issued with it. I too have a "WAL43" canteen (typical continental style though) that is marked "WAL43" on the wool cover, leather strap and neck. the cup is identical to yours. I looked for a "WAL43" cup for years, searching hundreds and hundreds of examples and although I found a few early dated WAL cups I never saw a '43 or later marked version. when I see an all marked "WAL43" they are always just as yours, black paint and unmarked cup. for whatever reason they stopped stamping the cups at this point. so in my opinion yours is a factory direct example. Glenn

[Todd Gylsen]

Glen, thanks for the information on the canteen.

[Fritz Luther]

Curdoroy

Here is one of my latest purchases and a friend told me they used a lot of the Curdoroy material in Afrika. I know the harness are usually for the coconut canteens can anyone give me some background on this one? Is this an early experimental prior to the coconuts? Harness marked from what I can see HRE 41 and the canteen is DNN 42. No idea on cover marking yet as I have yet to hold it in my hand.